February 14, 2003

MIT Researchers Says Unwanted Hard Drives Often Reveal Secrets

By SCOTT CARLSON

You thought you had wiped that hard drive clean before you sold the computer,

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but there are indeed ghosts in the machine: your credit-card number, medical information, pornography, or perhaps even national-security secrets. And they're

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